Catalogue Raisonné

P72.045

Painter's Forms, 1972
Oil on panel
48 x 60 in.
121.9 x 152.4 cm
Signed front center: P.G.; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PAINTER'S (underlined)/ FORMS" (underlined)/ OIL - 48 x 60 (underlined) 1972
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston: New Paintings", March 15, 1974 - April 14, 1974 
IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "Philip Guston One-Shot Painting", December 13, 2001 - March 03, 2002  Travelled to:
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017 
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971", September 14, 2019 - January 05, 2020 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 3 illus. in b&w unnumbered page
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 174
Coolidge, Clark. "Clark Coolidge Class 1." Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, July 1, 1980, Audio recording, mentioned and read poem inspired by it
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Hustvedt, Siri. Mysteries of the Rectangle. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, illus. in color p. 56 and mentioned in text p. 57
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
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